Charles Avery

Legal & General Capital acquired a minority stake in ImpactA Global, which makes SDG-aligned investments into emerging markets infrastructure, earlier this year.

Calvert Impact Capital has begun to refocus its impact efforts on helping children by surveying its portfolio companies.

GIIN and CIIP have collaborated to launch a scheme to educate the next generation of impact investors.

OTPP has been analysing nine of its investments to develop a better understanding of how to implement an impact strategy.

The impact manager has received backing from the likes of Big Society Capital and Greater Manchester Combined Authority to address social inequality in the UK.

Greater Manchester Pension Fund has worked with The Good Economy to produce a report analysing its local impact investments to date.

Some managers have managed to raise impact capital despite a slower market in H1 2023.

Matthias Hansch will take charge of the firm's value creation plans, while Alison Prout has joined the ESG team.

Data convergence and DE&I were also on the minds of the panellists at an event in London focusing on ESG in venture capital.

There is a 'compelling business case' for sustainability measures – decarbonisation in particular – say GSAM private equity co-head Michael Bruun and head of real estate client solutions Jeffery Fine.